Example sentences of "[not/n't] have [adv] [adj] " in BNC.

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1 The same tendency to concentrate on grapho-phonemic cues has , however , been demonstrated by other children who had not had predominantly phonic training .
2 former players from great teams have not had that much success at Leeds ! !
3 Well , I think academics are quite good at resisting what they do n't want to deal with you know , so in many departments , it 's not had very much .
4 He would not have created around him such a large and adoring circle had he not had very real capacities as a teacher , a gift for friendship and for infecting others with his passion for art , literature , films and music as well as a readiness to share in the post-war desire for a better world .
5 I had not had very successful relationships with people up to this time and I said no to him . ’
6 She had not had so much fun for a long time , since before she buried Anthony .
7 In the case of the miller 's wife : ( She had not had so pleasant a time for many a long year )
8 Jessie Stephen 's mother wished she had not had so many children and did not desire to have more .
9 I believe that if Piggy had not had so many physical defects he would have been allowed to make himself heard .
10 Howard 's other films have not had quite comparable pretensions : he appeared in The Return of the Musketeers , Oxford Blues and ‘ just , just ’ in David Hare 's Strapless .
11 She had not had as many men as Karen gave her credit for , there was an element of blarney in all that , but there 'd been quite a number , had n't there ?
12 ‘ Man , Ranald , we 've not had as good a season in years !
13 In the absence of Philip and Storie , George Reifer will open the batting with Bruce Patterson , Clydesdale 's new professional , and though Reifer has not had too much experience of going in first , he did open a couple of times during his 15-game spell with Barbados .
14 GOOD news from an Everton camp which has not had too much to cheer recently , is that Howard Kendall has all his first team squad fit for selection against Nottingham Forest , with the single exception of Mark Ward , writes Ian Hargraves .
15 Because he took over his new duties in the close season Love has not had too many opportunities to meet many of the players , but the squad have had two nets at Moray House College , Edinburgh , the last two Fridays and Love has been impressed by the effort put in by the players at these sessions .
16 In the recounting of this story , several objects are referred to for which most sign languages do not have already existing signs .
17 In comparative terms , Britain does not have particularly high levels of social spending .
18 The teacher is faced with the persistent problem of how to help children feel the action has started when the truth is they do not have either enough factual or empathetic resources to identify with the historical situation .
19 Furthermore , Rossi and Rosadini ( 1967 ) , who also used the Amytal technique , reported that only one patient out of 74 right handers , all of whom received injections on both sides , did not have exclusively left hemisphere speech dominance .
20 Is not it the case that we do not have widely available anywhere near the diversity of potatoes that is available in other countries , such as the United States ?
21 We know from an HMI report of last year that more than three quarters of our secondary schools are finding it difficult to deliver the national curriculum because they do not have properly qualified staff in every subject .
22 Even a disastrous outcome in the public sector can be financed by a fraction of a penny on everyone 's income tax , which does not have nearly such disastrous consequences .
23 However , our test formula shows that , given an equal number of constituency and of list seats , a party with an average of only 31.2% of the constituency vote and the same percentage of the list vote ( y ) would not have even one excess seat unless it won more than 62.4% ( x ) of the constituency seats .
24 The solipsist can not have even that limited knowledge of his own experiences .
25 Their consequence for the tiny particles was only apparently random and unpredictable , due to the hidden atomic motions of which we did not have adequately detailed knowledge .
26 Inference : the adolescent does not have racially biased attitudes ; in fact he has good positive attitudes .
27 Although the possibility remains that there may have been some undetectable degree of portosystemic shunting , our patient did not have clinically evident portal hypertension .
28 Now for some of our members choice is is not something that they are fortunate enough to have because they are very needy and they do not have perhaps all the education that some of the tory party perhaps have , that they have been less fortunate in many , many ways .
29 The greatest number of past lives experienced by any of my patients during the course of such discovery is eight — but this does not mean that we do not have far more than that , simply that the patient chose to stop after that number .
30 They are , however , subsidized to some extent , and although the Remploy workers do a full day 's work they do not have quite such demands made on them as they would encounter in open employment .
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